From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,3398541ec18f6aa6 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: Taking another spanking. Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <6f8fcf5b-09d7-40b6-9ac3-ed7e9f228b89@t21g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <0ca1d49a-c13b-4dad-907e-982bcfb6c01f@q2g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> <%MEVl.318080$4m1.110366@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <96fWl.3064$z92.689@newsfe23.ams2> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:31:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.64.240.214 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1244259114 12.64.240.214 (Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:31:54 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:31:54 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6322 Date: 2009-06-06T03:31:54+00:00 List-Id: In using a special or extra program to provide that service is great. But to embed that feature into the GNAT compiler is wrong. It is saying that Ada is no long a viable language. In <96fWl.3064$z92.689@newsfe23.ams2>, Per Sandberg writes: >To fill in from an GNATPro user. > >In the recent versions of gnatpro gcc and g++ got a new switch >"-fdump-ada-spec" that will generate Ada specs from a C or C++ header files. >/Very convenient and it works like a dream when interfacing libraries >with interfaces specified in the languages C and C++. >/Per > >sjw wrote: >> On Jun 4, 1:43 am, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote: >> >> Are you really just one person, or a collective? Sometimes you're >> sensible, sometimes plain bananas .. this time on the sensible side. I >> wish you'd admit to your real name! >> >>> But some like you talk that Ada should NEVER go beyond the RM and use >>> Sockets, that is just wrong. Ada like all languages must be able to adapt and >>> handle all devices both physical as well as virtual to be compatible to be used >>> for all applications. Else its the death by limitation of the language. >> >> Nothing wrong with GNAT.Sockets, use it all the time. But see no need >> to go the .Thin level. If I did, I wouldn't moan at AdaCore for >> changing it. >> >>> But then again, I think it was you that stated last year that if you rewrote >>> or updated "C2Ada" you would never write the program in Ada! >> >> c2ada is written in C, with some Python that I haven't had to >> understand yet (and which seem to be related to converting C _bodies_ >> to Ada, not a sensible project or one likely to lead to success IMO). >> >> So I might have said that I would rewrite it in Ada; but now, given >> that AdaCore have announced a conversion facility, I think I'll find >> something more worth while.